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Published by Reuters UK By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – A former North Korean defector who made a risky and rare cross-border return home last week had struggled in South Korea, officials and media reports said on Tuesday, sparking fresh debate over how such defectors are treated in their new lives. South Korea’s military identified […]

Published by Reuters By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong court sentenced a 36-year-old barrister to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for inciting an unauthorised assembly to commemorate those who died in China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Activist Chow Hang-tung, of the since-closed Hong

Published by Reuters By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman who has sued Britain’s Prince Andrew for sexual abuse agreed in a 2009 civil settlement with Jeffrey Epstein to restrictions on her ability to sue others, language that could potentially impact whether the lawsuit against the prince goes forward. The

Published by Mongabay “I was born in the country, at home — not in a hospital,” Gaspar Gonçalves do Amaral says proudly. For Amaral, home is the municipality of Arinos in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, part of the Cerrado grassland that’s watered by the Urucuia and Paracatu rivers. Back then, Amaral says, growing cotton was

Published by Al-Araby Israeli police killed a Palestinian man on Friday in the town of Um Al Fahm in northern Israel. Police identified the Palestinian as Fathi Jabareen, a man in his late twenties. According to the Israeli police, Jabareen was allegedly involved in a in a car-ramming attack, which injured two policemen. The Israeli

Published by Al-Araby An attack by so-called Islamic State militants on a village in northern Iraq on Friday killed three villagers and 10 Kurdish soldiers, officials in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region said. The attack took place in the Makhmour region, a hotbed for Islamic State activity that sees regular attacks against Kurdish forces, Iraqi forces

Published by Reuters By Parisa Hafezi, Francois Murphy and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) -The seventh round of indirect U.S.-Iranian talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will end on Friday with a meeting of the remaining parties to the deal, European and Iranian officials said, with the aim of resuming next week. The gathering

Published by Relaxnews India on Monday opened to foreign tourists from countries with reciprocal agreements after a 20-month ban because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Tour operators said, however, that demand was extremely sluggish due to high ticket prices and remaining restrictions on travellers from Britain, China and elsewhere. The country famous for the Taj Mahal,

Published by The Bangkok Post A man was shot in the chest during a rally after key protest leaders were accused of trying to bring down the constitutional monarchy. The man was shot in front of the Police General Hospital at 5.12pm and was rushed out of the area for treatment. The protest began at

Published by Azer News By Trend Almost 200 nations accepted a contentious climate compromise Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that some high officials called a watering down of crucial language about coal, Trend reports citing Al Arabiya. Several countries, including small island states, said